Crazy Canuck
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Sorry for the hippling. Hasta.
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GM's thread about nothing (26 Viewers)
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Idiot Boxer
Footballguy
I get it. Cloney Romo.
Guster
Footballguy
I'm trying to figure out if I should read that name as "Dirk's wish" or "Dirk Swish"Hoarder Boy?'Samuel L Bronkowitz said:Joined: Today, 03:18 PM
SofaKings
Footballguy
"what the #### is a frush?"I'm trying to figure out if I should read that name as "Dirk's wish" or "Dirk Swish"Hoarder Boy?'Samuel L Bronkowitz said:Joined: Today, 03:18 PM
YSR
Footballguy
Hoarder Boy?'Samuel L Bronkowitz said:Joined: Today, 03:18 PM
Not him. But maybe we've struck upon a username.
Fightin Donkey
Footballguy
'General Malaise said:
Gadzooks
Footballguy
'Kubes said:
Hi Mrs. Kubes, I'm from that nerd football message board, I'll order anything and you can send it to COS, send the naked pic to me.'Kubes said:
I'll take a PM'Samuel L Bronkowitz said:Took some great honeymoon shots with it'General Malaise said:Wife has a D300. LOVES it. She's a Nikon fan.'Mr. Pickles said:
SofaKings
Footballguy
chuck e cheese is hell.
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
I never collected that fart money'madhatter said:
Tecumseh
Footballguy
I've had mine all this week too. Monday: Went to the park- X-Box marathonTues: Bowling and video games- X-Box marathonWed: Metal detecting- X-Box MarathonThur: Disc golf?- X-Box marathonFri- Drink heavily- Smash X-Box
Reg Lllama of Brixton
Footballguy
o hai
YSR
Footballguy
Does learning that Aaron Rodgers is a hippie frolfer make you hate him less?
Reg Lllama of Brixton
Footballguy
Slightly. Dude probably throws the hell out of the disc.
Reg Lllama of Brixton
Footballguy
Opening band last night was The Black Tibetans. Pretty solid rockabillyesque trio. I think I remember texting some people to google "black tibetans bass player" and then tell me if she was as hot as I thought. Not bad at all.
moar
moar
Guster
Footballguy
About half the games here aren't working today.
desert rose
Footballguy
I got an AMC theater gift card for Christmas. I don't think there's one within 300 miles of me. Where can you swap or sell these things?
desert rose
Footballguy
Is my mom the only person afraid to throw away junk mail because it has personal information on it? Add to that pile prescription medication envelopes and every email she's every received that has to be printed out before she can read it.
Reg Lllama of Brixton
Footballguy
cardpool.com
desert rose
Footballguy
Sad but true.
SofaKings
Footballguy
Not sure YSR. How long has this behavior been going on?
Reg Lllama of Brixton
Footballguy
Why does she print out emails?
Notorious T.R.E.
Showdown!™ Administrator
I approve of the kissy face.
desert rose
Footballguy
I'm really not sure, except that she simply has to read them to my dad and anyone else around. I think she gets that from my grandpa who would make us listen to him read all the time. He'd see an article he liked in a magazine and would preface it with, "Listen to this.."
desert rose
Footballguy
Since she started seeing things about identity theft, she's been afraid of throwing out anything with her name on it.
Thorn
Footballguy
desert rose
Footballguy
Growing up I learned that if I wanted to throw something away, I had to sneak it out of the house or totally detroy it. I found out she was fishing things out of my wastebasket. She has piles of mending from when we were little. She saved her nursing bras thinking that when we had kids we could use them. She rinses plastic bags and smooths out aluminum foil to reuse. She saves twisties from bread wrappers and jelly jars. She has a sewing room that you can only walk in about 3 feet before you're met with a four foot pile. I'd say she's got more that a touch.
Ignoramus
Footballguy
Shredder?
Tremendous Upside
Footballguy
Kinda looks like if Lisbeth Salander played bass
Kubes
Footballguy
Same boat. I have no idea how my wife does it all week, every week. I at least have her upstairs so I can throw one of the kids at her if I need a little break, but I'm about to throw one or both of these kids out a window.
desert rose
Footballguy
She has one. But before it can be shredded, she just lets it all pile up on the dining table, along with her emails, paper clips, empty prescription bottles, packets of honey, mayo, and croutons from fast foot places, Wendy's napkins, earrings she's taken off, 100 year old irreplaceable photographs of great grandparents, unused gift cards, uncashed checks, empty spice bottles, etc, etc, etc, clearing out just enough space for two people to eat, until she has important enough company to clear it off.
Ignoramus
Footballguy
Shred her?
YSR
Footballguy
Yikes. This part especially. I have thrown out full grocery bags of this stuff. Sorry to hear you have to deal with this. I have the benefit of the hoarders being my in-laws, not really sure how I would handle it if it were my own mother or father.
Guster
Footballguy
Lasted almost an hour and a half at Chuck E CheeseBought $10 worth of tokens and a $2 lemonade. Walked out with 2 "sketch" pictures of us, 2 black and white pictures of her riding a truck next to Chucky, 2 "ID" cards, a bookmark, a small roll of sweet tart candies, green vampire teeth and a top. We're at Red Robin for lunch now, because I didn't get enough kid noise earlier. Yesterday was better though - we watched movies all day long. The highlight was Bad News Bears (who knew there was so much swearing?? Oops) - my daughter was yelling "boo Yankees, lose" at the tv towards the end. As a Red Sox fan, it really warmed my heart. I just hope she doesn't use any of the words she heard in front or her mom...Tuesday we played with her new science kit and went to the movies (Hugo). So all in all it's been a good, fun week. I'm looking forward to drinks and a concert with friends tonight before I get her back tomorrow night until Saturday around 4. Oh, and my ex girlfriend found a place, but doesn't get occupancy until early Feb, so she's still around, constantly. Using alcohol is a coping mechanism is healthy, right?
General Malaise
Footballguy
My wife made the mistake of letting me take her camera for a spin once....ONCE. She would have been better off giving an uzi to a chimp. I took hold of that thing and immediately started snapping shots like a member of the papparazi. I thought I had done a marvelous job capturing the joys and expressions of the 2010 2nd grade holiday party. I handed her camera back to her with a satisfied grin and began patting myself on the back only to learn that the lighting was awful, the pictures were blurry and I had more shots of my shoes than I did of the kids.I now take all pictures exclusively with my blackberry.'Mr. Pickles said:Nikon seems to be the system of choice for pros and semi-pros. Canon makes some fine cameras, and the T2i is plenty capable. The D300 that GM's wife uses is more of a pro-style camera. It's similar to the D90 and the newer D7000 in that it uses a DX format sensor and is crazy fast (~8 fps). It's a little older and thus has a 12.3 megapixel sensor versus the newer models which are exceeding 18 MP, but it's still a workhorse in the industry and probably will be for some time.A lot of what you see with the higher end DSLRs are needless features that only pro-ish people would even think to care about. For example, having two memory card slots is terrific for backing up your work. These cameras also feature better weather sealing for keeping moisture and dust out, something that would potentially be a problem over time. They also have sturdier construction like magnesium alloy bodies that would hold up better. The consumer level stuff is almost always optically in the ballpark as the cream of the crop, but you miss out on some of the versatility you'll get with better equipment.'Samuel L Bronkowitz said:Wife has a Canon T2i. What's the difference? Is it like Audi vs Kia?Took some great honeymoon shots with it'General Malaise said:Wife has a D300. LOVES it. She's a Nikon fan.'Mr. Pickles said:
What's interesting is how easy it is to access premium photographic technology these days. Given that film is essentially dead, there's really no mystery to taking great pictures anymore. You can just trial-and-error your way into it and learn on the fly. You used to have to be really careful and meticulous to avoid making expensive and time-consuming mistakes, but those days are gone. Sure you can't be some studio guy and fumble around with equipment, but the learning curve is much more shallow than it's ever been.
Given the above, there's still the issue of knowing how to harness light and artistically frame a shot. It's probably impossible to teach this. You either have the eye or you don't.
cosjobs
Footballguy
What's the downside? You have to delete most of them? What's that take? 45 seconds? That's teh beauty of these things. You could play with it every day and really do no harm. So what if 1/100 pics are any good? Just take enough so that you meet the ratio requirements.At some point you may not even totally suck. I'm thinking you wife just made you feel bad about it because she didn't want your paws on her camera.My wife made the mistake of letting me take her camera for a spin once....ONCE. She would have been better off giving an uzi to a chimp. I took hold of that thing and immediately started snapping shots like a member of the papparazi. I thought I had done a marvelous job capturing the joys and expressions of the 2010 2nd grade holiday party. I handed her camera back to her with a satisfied grin and began patting myself on the back only to learn that the lighting was awful, the pictures were blurry and I had more shots of my shoes than I did of the kids.I now take all pictures exclusively with my blackberry.'Mr. Pickles said:Nikon seems to be the system of choice for pros and semi-pros. Canon makes some fine cameras, and the T2i is plenty capable. The D300 that GM's wife uses is more of a pro-style camera. It's similar to the D90 and the newer D7000 in that it uses a DX format sensor and is crazy fast (~8 fps). It's a little older and thus has a 12.3 megapixel sensor versus the newer models which are exceeding 18 MP, but it's still a workhorse in the industry and probably will be for some time.A lot of what you see with the higher end DSLRs are needless features that only pro-ish people would even think to care about. For example, having two memory card slots is terrific for backing up your work. These cameras also feature better weather sealing for keeping moisture and dust out, something that would potentially be a problem over time. They also have sturdier construction like magnesium alloy bodies that would hold up better. The consumer level stuff is almost always optically in the ballpark as the cream of the crop, but you miss out on some of the versatility you'll get with better equipment.'Samuel L Bronkowitz said:Wife has a Canon T2i. What's the difference? Is it like Audi vs Kia?Took some great honeymoon shots with it'General Malaise said:Wife has a D300. LOVES it. She's a Nikon fan.'Mr. Pickles said:
What's interesting is how easy it is to access premium photographic technology these days. Given that film is essentially dead, there's really no mystery to taking great pictures anymore. You can just trial-and-error your way into it and learn on the fly. You used to have to be really careful and meticulous to avoid making expensive and time-consuming mistakes, but those days are gone. Sure you can't be some studio guy and fumble around with equipment, but the learning curve is much more shallow than it's ever been.
Given the above, there's still the issue of knowing how to harness light and artistically frame a shot. It's probably impossible to teach this. You either have the eye or you don't.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
For Christmas:
Several shirts
A tub of popcorn in a Rams container from my Goddaughter
A Big Green Egg XL W/cart
A CC bill that is so embarrassingly high for the second month in a row I wouldn't dream of posting it here.
And my favorite, I started to get headaches reminiscent of my when I had my concussion about 3 weeks ago that I thought were gone for good. They were pretty sporadic but I've had one since Christmas now. It isn't as bad as it was but I remember this. I've made appointments with a pain management guy as well as the neurologists. I'm thinking about canceling the latter and just getting the injection in my neck. It hurts my head to look at the puter screen for a long time.
Oh yeah, on Christmas Eve my wife said I kept stopped breathing for 45 seconds at a time. Just e-mailed these people to set up a consultation to see what all of this is about.
On top of that I picked up a bug. I've done nothing but sleep and work all week.
Several shirts
A tub of popcorn in a Rams container from my Goddaughter
A Big Green Egg XL W/cart
A CC bill that is so embarrassingly high for the second month in a row I wouldn't dream of posting it here.
And my favorite, I started to get headaches reminiscent of my when I had my concussion about 3 weeks ago that I thought were gone for good. They were pretty sporadic but I've had one since Christmas now. It isn't as bad as it was but I remember this. I've made appointments with a pain management guy as well as the neurologists. I'm thinking about canceling the latter and just getting the injection in my neck. It hurts my head to look at the puter screen for a long time.
Oh yeah, on Christmas Eve my wife said I kept stopped breathing for 45 seconds at a time. Just e-mailed these people to set up a consultation to see what all of this is about.
On top of that I picked up a bug. I've done nothing but sleep and work all week.
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St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Nope.
Tremendous Upside
Footballguy
So she just sat there with a stopwatch instead of waking you up to restart your breathing?Nope.
General Malaise
Footballguy
My wife spent a month in Vietnam with a group from Portland State a few years back and tells a great story about her group taking their local hosts out for a night on the town. Says they spent all night at this one karoke bar, drinking like sailors and having a blast. Bill comes at the end of the night and her jaw nearly hit the floor when the total bill was like $35 or something ridiculous. The local kids who were with them tried to pay their share, but my wife's group objected and said 'no, we got this one!'. Said the bill would have been several hundred dollars in the states.Enjoy your time there and sorry to learn about your malaria, homes.'Bucky86 said:That'll cost about about $10.'cosjobs said:
this was my thought as well.So she just sat there with a stopwatch instead of waking you up to restart your breathing?Nope.
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